CHAPTER

5

Decimals

Naming Decimals

As with whole numbers, each digit of a decimal has aplace value. The place

value names are shown in Fig. 5-1.

For example, in the number 0.6235, the 2 is in the hundredths place. The

5 is in the ten thousandths place.

When naming a decimal, read the number from left to right as you would read a

whole number, and then use the place value name for the last digit of the number.

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Fig. 5-1.

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